The new pandemic of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) should
come as no surprise. For more than two decades health officials have
warned about new diseases caused by “emerging” viruses. With each new
disease outbreak we are reminded the ‘Big One’ will kill millions of
people in the future. And with each new outbreak health officials blame
Nature or animals.

Many people seem reassured the number of SARS cases is still
small when compared to the world population. As of May 28, 2003, there
are 8,240 probable cases with 745 deaths. The virus has broken out in 30
countries, although 90% of cases are in Asia. The death rate is reported
at 12%, but in people over the age of 60, it can go as high as 60%. SARS
spreads more rapidly than HIV. In the US it took 5 years for AIDS to
infect that many people; in Asia it took SARS 6 months.

Except for mild cases, SARS is unlike the common cold and flu.
In more severe cases pneumonia rapidly develops, along with great
difficulty breathing (“acute respiratory distress”). Some victims
require a mechanical respirator to breath, and patients who recover are
often left with lungs that are permanently damaged. Unlike the AIDS
virus, which greatly depresses the immune system, the SARS virus
stimulates it so much that the overactive immune system causes damage to
vital lung tissue.

The mysterious SARS virus, reportedly a member of the
coronavirus family, is a new virus never before seen by virologists. The
air-borne contagious disease, spread by droplets from coughing, is an
entirely new illness with devastating effects on the immune system, and
there is no known treatment. Certainly SARS has the hallmarks of a
bioweapon. After all, aren’t new biological warfare agents designed to
produce a new disease with a new infectious agent?

According to the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation, at
least one Russian scientist has suggested a link between SARS and
biowarfare, On April 3, the Russian Interfax-AVN news service quoted
Sergei Kolesnikov, a member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences,
as saying: “The propagation of the atypical pneumonia [SARS] may well be
caused by a leak of a combat virus grown in Asian bacteriological
weapons labs.” Later, on April 12, Kolesnikov claimed the virus was a
mixture of measles and mumps – one that could not occur naturally and
could only be made in a laboratory.”

This accusation was never reported by the mainstream media, but
brings to mind similar accusations Russian scientists made in December
1985 when they concluded the AIDS epidemic was caused by experiments
carried out in the USA as part of the development of new biological
weapons.

Amazingly, we are repeatedly reminded about bioterrorists and
bioweapons, yet with SARS not a word about biowarfare. Certainly proof
the media are controlled by powerful forces that refuse to recognise
what many citizens are thinking privately, and posting on the Internet.

The earliest April 2003 media reports detailed a mysterious
lung disease (acute respiratory syndrome or ARS) that broke out in
Guangdong province in mainland China, close to the island of Hong Kong.
Shortly thereafter, I received an email describing similar epidemics of
ARS with many deaths in the Congo and on the island of Madagascar, off
the coast of Eastern Africa, in the summer of 2002. In the beginning of
the epidemic, the Chinese scientists claimed the lung disease was caused
by a bacterium (a chlamydia); Western scientists and the World Health
Organisation (WHO) suspected a coronavirus.

For anyone doing research, an Internet “search-engine” like
google.com is invaluable. I typed-in “acute respiratory syndrome African
cases 2002”, and quickly discovered WHO reports of ARS in the summer and
fall of 2002. In civil war-torn Congo, there were 4000 cases of ARS
reported in October 2002, with 500 deaths, making the death rate 12%. In
contrast, the Chinese mortality rate from SARS was initially (and
erroneously) reported as 3-4%. Even though the African ARS death rate
was four times higher, the WHO added the letter “S” and termed the
epidemic in China “severe” ARS (SARS). In Madagascar, another country
torn by civil strife, the ARS epidemic affected 22,646 people, with 153
deaths. Both epidemics were believed to be caused by influenza A virus,
although none of the cases were tested for unusual coronavirus
infection. None of these African pre-SARS epidemics were reported by the
Western media.

Within days of the first April reports, WHO investigators
claimed Chinese health officials were lying by covering-up the first
cases of SARS that occurred in mid-November 2002. It is possible the ARS
epidemics in Africa had nothing to do with SARS in China. However, it is
well known that Sub-Saharan Africa is a testing place for new vaccines
and drugs, and presumably for biowarfare agents as well. By April 17,
WHO officially recognised the new coronavirus as the cause of SARS, and
named it the SARS virus. Could the new coronavirus/SARS virus be
biological warfare? No one in the media was asking that question.

Along with an Internet search engine like google.com, the
scientific information on the PubMed Web site (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/)
is essential for serious biomedical research, particularly as a source
for free information on genetic engineering and molecular biology.
Sponsored by the US National Institutes of Health, the web site catalogs
everything published in reputable scientific journals, along with the
title, often an abstract, and an identification number (PMID) for each
paper. One can also enter a researcher’s name (type in “Cantwell, AR”)
or a phrase, and instantly access a medical and scientific library at
your fingertips.

If you enter “coronavirus bioterrorism”, PubMed refers you to
one article; on google the same words give you 200 items on various web
sites. When I typed “coronavirus animal experimentation” on PubMed, one
article appeared. However, “coronavirus genetic engineering” referred me
to 107 articles on scientific experiments dating back to 1987.

I quickly confirmed scientists have been genetically
engineering animal and human coronaviruses to make disease-producing
mutant and recombinant viruses for over a decade. No wonder WHO
scientists identified the SARS/coronavirus so quickly. Never emphasised
by medical news writers is the fact that for over forty years scientists
have been “jumping species” with all sorts of animal and human viruses
and creating chimera viruses (viruses composed from viruses of two
different species). This unsupervised research produces dangerous
man-made viruses, many of which have potential as bioweapons.

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho of the Institute for Science in Society cites a
Journal of Virology report (Feb 2000) describing a method for inducing
desired mutations into coronavirus to create new viruses. “A key feature
of the procedure is to make interspecific chimera recombinant viruses.
It involves replacing part of the spike protein gene in the feline (cat)
infectious peritonitis (corona) virus (FIPV) – which causes invariably
fatal infections in cats – with that of the mouse hepatitis (corona)
virus. The recombinant mFIPV will no longer infect cat cells, but will
infect mouse cells instead, and multiply rapidly in them.” (PMID:
10627550)

Ho continues: “Manipulating viral genomes is now routine, and
it is easy to create new viruses that jump host species in the
laboratory in the course of apparently legitimate experiments in genetic
engineering. It is not even necessary to intentionally create lethal
viruses, if one so wishes. It is actually much faster and much more
effective to let random recombination and mutation take place in the
test tube. Using a technique called ‘molecular breeding’, millions of
recombinants can be generated in a matter of minutes. These can be
screened for improved function in the case of enzymes, or increased
virulence, in the case of viruses and bacteria. In other words,
geneticists can now greatly speed up evolution in the laboratory to
create viruses and bacteria that never existed in all the billions of
years of evolution on earth.” Ho asks: Why are scientists not held
accountable like everyone else?

The media constantly associate the SARS virus with a human
coronavirus that causes the common cold, apparently in an effort to
soothe the public. But they downplay the various coronaviruses which
affect different animal and bird species and produce a variety of
serious infections and fatal illness in various species of animals and
birds. It is mostly these animal coronaviruses that have been
genetically engineered.

According to Dr. Julie Gerberding, Director of the Centres for
Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, the genetic analysis and sequencing of
SARS were not helpful in determining the origins of the virus.
“Unfortunately the clues from comparing it to the animal viruses have
not given us any real leads… We can’t say it’s a mouse virus or a pig
virus, or any other animal virus, necessarily, because it just isn’t
similar enough to the known species to be able to draw those
conclusions.” In mid-May, experiments inoculating SARS virus into
chickens and pigs were unsuccessful, indicating SARS did not originate
in Chinese pigs and chickens, as theorised.

Although proof of pre-SARS genetic engineering is easily
obtained on PubMed, the scientific language of virology and molecular
biology studies is very difficult to understand for the layperson.
However, it is possible to get the gist of what is going on in this
technology.

In 1995, an abstract of an experiment details the
species-mixing of mouse coronavirus with cow “mutant” (coronavirus)
using these words: “Targeted RNA recombination was used to construct
mouse hepatitis [corona] virus (MHV) mutants containing chimeric
nucleocapsid (N) protein genes in which segments of the bovine [cow]
coronavirus N gene were substituted in place of their corresponding MHV
sequences. Our results demonstrate that targeted recombination can be
used to make extensive substitutions in the coronavirus genome and can
generate recombinants that could not otherwise be made between two
viruses separated by a species barrier.” (PMID: 7636993) In another 1997
gene therapy experiment, scientists mixed cat, human, and pig
coronaviruses, and adapted them to human kidney cells (PMID: 9367365).
These are just two examples of thousands of gene experiments found on
PubMed. One can enter “rat sialoacryoadenitis virus and genetic
engineering” and be referred to 1424 experiments.

Media journalists never mention the genetic engineering of
coronaviruses, and never suggest SARS could be a lab-made virus. With
each new emerging disease, the same litanies are presented. Too many
people crowded together, the crowding of animals and birds in food
production, international travel that carries viruses far and wide,
closeness to farm animals, climate changes, destruction of the rain
forest, etc.

Like the homophobia (and the green monkey stories) surrounding
the early days of AIDS, medical writers parrot the subtle racist science
provided by the WHO regarding the supposed origin of flu viruses.

On May 19, Lawrence Altman, M.D., the premier AIDS writer for
the New York Times since 1981, asks: “Did the SARS virus jump species
from an exotic animal in a food market in China to infect a human? If
SARS is an animal virus, did it mutate to cause a new virus? Did the
virus somehow come from another human coronavirus, perhaps mutating into
a deadly form”? Altman tells us, “the scientific search into the origins
of SARS is mainly focused on the wild game and food markets in Guangdong
Province…. an area where merchants commonly sit on stacked cages of
exotic animals in food stalls, a setting that could easily allow for the
transfer of a virus from animals to humans.”

There is no reference to bioterrorism, or lab experimentation
with coronaviruses. He notes epidemiologic clues, “and the Chinese
practice of putting exotic species of animals on the dinner plate have
led many scientists to theorise that SARS may have originated from
handling or eating wild game.” And, “because the molecular structure of
the SARS virus does not resemble that of any known coronavirus,
scientists theorise that it may have come from wild animals that had
never been extensively studied.”

How can we deal with bioterrorism if we never seriously
question whether any of these new emerging diseases are man-made? For
example, the subject of HIV/AIDS as a man-made disease has been widely
discussed in “conspiracy literature” since the disease became official
in 1981. Yet the major media and the medical community totally dismiss
this research as “conspiracy theory” or paranoia. (On google, “AIDS
biological warfare” will refer you to 540 different Web sites.) My own
two books on man-made AIDS (AIDS and the Doctors of Death and Queer
Blood – available from New Dawn Book Service) have been ignored by the
media, the medical authorities, and the AIDS establishment.

Why does the mere mention of man-made disease bring up the
spectre of “conspiracy theory” when, in fact, the production of
genetically engineered infectious agents and the “introduction” of these
agents into civilian populations are exactly what biowarfare programs
are supposed to accomplish?

How are scientists and journalists convinced a new biological
agent is some “mutant” from Nature, when these same people don’t seem to
have a clue as to what has already been created in the arsenal of
biowarfare researchers and bioterrorists, as well as in routine biomed
laboratories.

How can any independent researcher of biowarfare secure
information on the subject when all these programs are Top Secret, with
workers who are sworn to secrecy under penalty of jail time, or worse.
Because there is a blackout on secret biowarfare, it is necessary for
the media to concoct all sorts of other explanations (most of which are
eventually proven wrong) to explain the “origin” of these new diseases.
Any conflicting theories are labeled “conspiracy theory.”

When some classified government reports of civilian covert
medical experimentation are released (usually after 30-50 years), these
reports rarely make headlines. Decades after the fact, most of the
victims of experimentation are dead and the story “old news.” One must
assume medical journalists cannot conceive the possibility that some
emerging viruses might be new biowarfare agents introduced into civilian
populations for experimentation purposes, or for population control, or
genocide, or for attacks against certain specific political, cultural,
racial, or religious groups, or against so-called deviants in society,
such as homosexuals.

In the 1970s it was thought many infectious diseases had been
banished from the industrialised world. But with the spectacular rise of
genetic engineering over the last two decades, more than 30 new emerging
diseases have appeared around the world. Some of the better-known
diseases include AIDS, Legionnaire’s disease, toxic shock syndrome, Lyme
disease, hepatitis C, “mad cow disease”, hanta virus, various new
encephalitis and hemorrhagic viruses, Lassa fever, and Ebola virus. (New
controversial diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome and Persian Gulf
War Syndrome affecting Gulf War veterans are not included in the CDC’s
list of emerging diseases.) After 80 years of steady decline in
infectious disease, the mortality rate in the US rose 58% between 1980
and 1992.

We blame this on increased global travel and globalisation,
population growth and movements, deforestation and reforestation
programs, human sexuality (in the case of HIV), and increased human
contact with tropical mini-forests and other wilderness habitats that
are reservoirs for insects and animals harbouring unknown infectious
agents. But nowhere in the official list of causes is the fact that for
years millions of animals and innumerable vials of infectious material
have been shipped around the world for commercial and biological warfare
purposes. In addition, we still have to deal with the “old” infectious
agents, like anthrax bacteria, which are staples in all biowarfare
laboratories.

In the 1970s, the decade before AIDS, the US Army’s biowarfare
program intensified, particularly in the area of genetic engineering
research. In 1971, President Richard Nixon transferred a major part of
the Army’s Biological Warfare Unit at Ft. Detrick over to the National
Cancer Institute (NCI). Thereafter, secret biowarfare experimentation
continued under the cover of bona-fide cancer research.

During the 1970s the NCI’s Special Virus Cancer Program also
brought together leading national and international medical scientists
in a unified attempt to uncover and genetically alter cancer-causing and
immunosuppresive viruses.

The genetic manipulation of cells and infectious agents, as
well as the mixing and transferring of viruses between various animals
(including monkeys, chimps and other primates), resulted in the creation
of many man-made infectious agents for research, commercial and
biowarfare purposes. At the end of this decade a new immunosuppressive
virus (HIV) was introduced into the gay community, the most hated
minority in America.

Some researchers believe this Special Virus Cancer Program,
with its covert connection to America’s biowarfare program, spawned HIV
which was subsequently seeded into the black African population via
contaminated WHO-sponsored vaccine programs, and seeded into the US
homosexual community via the government-sponsored experimental hepatitis
B vaccine program (1978-1981).

Not only was HIV introduced, but the virus that causes Kaposi’s
sarcoma (the “gay cancer” of AIDS) was also seeded into gay men. These
hepatitis B experiments in Manhattan, Los Angeles, and San Francisco,
utilised only highly promiscuous, healthy white gay and bisexual men as
guinea pigs. Shortly after this experiment began, the first cases of
“gay-related immune deficiency disease” and “gay cancer” in the form of
KS, first erupted in New York City in 1979.

The idea of AIDS as a man-made virus is considered by most
scientists to be a joke. Scientists pooh-pooh the idea of a man-made
virus, even though the laboratory transfer of viruses from one species
to another always results in a man-made virus.

But man-made AIDS is no joke, especially to some American
blacks. If you type-in “AIDS conspiracy blacks” on PubMed, it will refer
you to a 1999 study polling black people who were asked if they believed
“HIV/AIDS is a man-made virus that the federal government made to kill
and wipe out black people.” [PMID: 10329334] The majority of black
people questioned said “yes” or “undecided.” Interestingly, the higher
the education, the more black people were likely to answer yes. The
authors concluded that “the prevalence and health-related implications
of blacks’ AIDS-conspiracy beliefs must be fully investigated.”

There is a little-known reason why HIV continues to
disproportionately affect gay men and bisexuals in America, and why it
is predominantly a heterosexual disease in Africa. It is now recognised
there are 10 different “subtypes” of HIV, which reflect differences in
the genetic composition of the AIDS virus. Subtype B is the form of HIV
existing in America; this subtype is not prevalent in Africa. (Another
reason to suspect HIV in America did not originate from Africa and the
US outbreak in gays was distinct from the African outbreak.)

Subtype B in the US spreads more easily with anal sex and IV
drug use, whereas the African subtypes spread more easily via
heterosexual contact. Dr. Max Essex at the Harvard School of Public
Health in Boston has demonstrated that subtypes C and E infect and
replicate more efficiently than subtype B in certain cells of the
vagina, cervix and the foreskin of the penis – but not on the wall of
the rectum. Essex contends these subtypes are spread more efficiently
through vaginal intercourse. Subtype B helps explain why the US epidemic
spread quickly among homosexual men and IV drug users, while in Africa
and Asia, subtypes C and E have spread rapidly among heterosexuals. In
my view, all these subtypes further suggest HIV is a manipulated virus
introduced by the hand of man, rather than a genetically-diverse virus
descended and derived from primates in the African jungle.

In sub-Saharan Africa in 2002, there were an estimated 2.4
million AIDS deaths with 3.5 million new infections, and a total of 30
million people in the region living with the infection. Isn’t it time
the scientific community asked itself if HIV could have evolved from lab
experiments and vaccine contaminations, rather then everyone blithely
going along with the dubious theory that “some chimpanzee in the jungle
did it!”

SARS in 2003 follows in the wake of another unprecedented
outbreak of West Nile virus in New York City in August 1999, which
worsens with each passing year. The first sign of an epidemic of unknown
origin occurred in early July when many birds died mysteriously. The
virus has an affinity for some species of birds; and the mosquito acts
as a vector to spread the virus between birds, humans and other animals.
A few weeks after the bird kills, the first human cases of encephalitis
appeared in local hospitals. On September 24, it was finally determined
the virus was West Nile virus – a virus that had never been seen in
America – and a virus for which there was no testing available in any
New York state laboratory.

Although the virus is contagious between birds, the disease is
not contagious between humans. Only about 20% of infected people develop
a mild flu-like form of the illness; but 1 in 150 people develop a
severe form of the disease with mental confusion, headache, swollen
glands, high fever, severe muscle weakness, and the tell-tale symptoms
of encephalitis (inflammation of the brain).

In 1999, the disease was confined to the New York City area,
with 62 cases and 7 deaths. In year 2000, there were 21 cases and two
deaths; in 2001 there were 56 cases with 7 deaths. In year 2002, the CDC
reported 4156 cases with 284 deaths; and it is estimated as many as
200,000 people are infected nationally. Inexplicably, as of May 2003,
the CDC reports no cases.

Until 2002 the virus was confined to states in the eastern half
of the country. By the summer of 2002, all but 6 of the lower 48 states
reported WN virus in birds, mosquitoes, animals or humans. Shockingly,
it was announced that WN virus was in the nation’s blood supply – and
there is no blood screening test available to test for the new virus.
There is also no treatment or cure for WN virus disease.

WN virus was first discovered in 1937 in encephalitis cases in
Uganda, East Africa. African cases tend to be mild, and the virus there
does not affect animal and bird populations to any significant degree.
In fact, the ability of the virus to infect and kill birds has only been
noticed recently. Mild outbreaks of WN occurred in Israel in 1951-1954
and 1957, and also in South Africa in 1974. However, since the mid
1990s, outbreaks of increasing frequency and severity have appeared in
Morocco, Tunisia, Italy, Israel, and Russia, and have been strangely
accompanied with a large number of bird deaths. Scientists have
determined the closest viral “relative” of the New York 99 strain of WN
virus is a strain of WN virus that circulated in Israel from 1997-2000.

Health authorities claim the virus entered the US via travelers
from the Middle East, or via a stray mosquito on an airplane. Other
researchers claim the virus arrived with African animals or birds placed
in zoos. But, in fact, the WN virus has been housed in US labs for
decades (along with African animals), and has been openly sold to
researchers around the world. From the very beginning of the WN virus
outbreak, there were rumours of bioterrorism, but these rumours were
denied by health officials.

Various new theories of origin still appear in the press. For
example, a Los Angeles Times editorial (September 28, 2002) proclaimed
that “scientists think (the virus) may have arrived in the early 1980s
when Asian tiger mosquitoes traveled in tire casings from Japan to
Houston.” (One wonders who supplies the press with these bizarre and
undocumented stories.)

On September 12, 2002, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy declared:
“I think we have to ask ourselves: Is it a coincidence that we’re seeing
such an increase in WN virus – or is that something that’s being tested
as a biological weapon against us.” Leahy is no stranger to
bioterrorism, having received an anthrax-laden letter at his Washington
office a year earlier.

Was WN virus deliberately or accidentally seeded into the
environment? Could the new outbreaks of WN virus be a result of decades
of animal experimentation and manipulation with the African virus? I
discovered on PubMed, for example, that fragments of West Nile virus
were spliced into cowpox virus in 1994 (PMID: 7958993). In September
2002, some WN patients developed signs and symptoms of polio, even
though that disease is caused by a totally different virus. Another
reason to suspect laboratory genetic manipulation of WN virus and/or the
mixing of this virus in vaccine preparations.

It is surprising the US government quickly eliminated
bioterrorism as a cause for HIV, the West Nile and the SARS virus,
particularly when the government has a long and well-documented history
of radiation and biowarfare experimentation against its own unsuspecting
citizens.

In the 1950s the US military planned a project to cripple the
Soviet economy by killing horses, cattle, and swine with biological
warfare weapons developed from exotic animal diseases. The laboratory at
Plum Island, off the coast of Long Island, New York, is the Army’s
repository for viruses derived from the world’s most dangerous animal
diseases. According to Norman Covert, base historian and public
information officer at Fort Detrick, only a handful of scientists were
aware of this project. “In many cases there were only maybe five people
who knew what was going on in weapons research. People in one lab didn’t
know what happened in the next lab, and they didn’t ask.” Details of
these Plum Island animal experiments were classified as secret until
1993.

During the 1950s and 60s secret military biowarfare attacks on
unsuspecting civilians took place in many parts of America. The most
notorious was a six-day attack on San Francisco in which clouds of
potentially harmful bacteria were sprayed over the city. Twelve people
developed pneumonia due to the infectious bacteria, and one elderly man
died from the attack. This attack was not revealed to the public until
years later when classified documents were finally released.

In other classified experiments, the military sprayed bacteria
in New York City subways, in a Washington D.C. airport, and on highways
in Pennsylvania. Biological warfare testing also took place in military
bases in Virginia, in Key West (Florida), and off the coasts of Southern
California and Hawaii.

In preparing America for nuclear attack during the Cold War
years following World War II, thousands of US citizens were used as
unsuspecting guinea pigs in over 4,000 secret and classified radiation
experiments conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission and other
agencies, such as the Department of Defense, the Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare, the Public Health Service (now the CDC), the
National Institutes of Health, the Veterans Administration, the CIA and
NASA. (See my article “The Human Radiation
Experiments: How scientists secretly used US citizens as guinea pigs
during the Cold War”, New Dawn, Sept 2001.)

The full extent of the US government’s experiments on
unsuspecting people will probably never be known because many
incriminating documents remain Top Secret or classified. Other documents
are often declared as missing, destroyed, or “unavailable”, in an
attempt to hide the truth from the public.

Not only is the public kept ignorant of biowarfare research,
but biowarfare “accidents” are officially covered-up, downplayed, and
frequently blamed on animals. For example, the Russians finally revealed
the truth about an epidemic of anthrax that caused at least 68 deaths in
1979 in the city of Sverdlovsk, 850 miles east of Moscow. The outbreak
was officially blamed on eating meat from infected animals. In 1992,
Russian President Boris Yeltsin finally acknowledged the real truth. The
cause was not “natural”, but due to the accidental escape of spores of
weapons-grade anthrax produced by the nearby biowarfare installation.

The Human Genome Project has been heralded in science and in
the media as a project to save mankind. By mapping and swapping our
human genes, scientists are trying to save us from illness, cancer and
genetic defects. However, it doesn’t take Einstein to figure out the
same technology can be used to make people sick, as well as healthy. For
obvious reasons, this fact is never mentioned.

Molecular biologists claim these genetic experiments are needed
for vaccine development, gene therapy, and disease cures. Most people do
not know that animal cells are used in the development and production of
certain vaccines. And with every new emerging virus and disease, there
is big money to be made by pharmaceutical companies, biotech companies,
biologists, vaccine makers, the entire health industry, and
stockholders. Health agencies, and international groups like the World
Health Organisation, have close ties to the pharmaceutical cartels, who
in turn are closely allied with governments and big business. Let’s face
it: ever since the WHO took over the health of the planet, the health of
the planet has steadily deteriorated.

When my book AIDS and the Doctors of Death was published in
1988, it detailed the dangers of vaccines and genetic engineering and
provided extensive circumstantial evidence that AIDS was man-made. In
1989 the book so incensed WHO officials, who were sponsors of the fifth
international AIDS Conference in Montreal, they demanded the book be
removed from the shelves of an exhibit run by the Highway Bookshop, thus
effectively banning the book from the conference.

Dr. David Heymann is the current executive director of the WHO
Communicable Disease Program. Back in 1992 Heymann was asked by Rolling
Stone’s reporter Tom Curtis if the possibly contaminated experimental
polio vaccines given to Africans back in the 1950s might have caused HIV
to erupt there. Heymann answered: “The origin of the AIDS virus is of no
importance to science today. Any speculation on how it arose is of no
importance.” (Quoted in Queer Blood,
p.79)

Government health agencies have little interest in uncovering
possible man-made origins of any emerging disease because such an
investigation could compromise covert biowarfare activities. The WHO is
no exception. In reality, the WHO (in its own mission statement)
“cooperates” with government agencies like the US Department of Defense,
which funds the US biological warfare program.

On February 12, 2003, while the Chinese were hiding the SARS
outbreak, the US National Academies’ National Research Council issued a
draft report estimating 11,000 people died from cancer related to
nuclear testing during the Cold War. The government admitted that
radioactive fallout exposed virtually everyone in the US to radiation
and contributed to the cancer deaths. The study, performed by the CDC
and NCI, has not yet been formally published. After a half-century, the
“good doctors” finally admitted the truth.

Further complicating the genetic engineering of the planet is
the sale of deadly microbes to anyone and any country with the cash to
buy them. From 1985-1988, Iraq purchased 70 shipments of anthrax, West
Nile virus, and other disease-causing organisms from the American Type
Culture Collection. Even after Hussein gassed the Kurds in 1988, and
even after the Gulf War, US officials continued to supply Iraq with
biochemical warfare ingredients. The CDC also sent West Nile virus and
numerous other biological agents to Iraq during the years 1984 and 1993.
(No wonder the CDC doesn’t want to investigate WN virus as a bioweapon!)

On October 18, 2001, the CDC issued an unprecedented alert
asking physicians to watch out for cases of smallpox, plague, botulism,
tularemia, and even “emerging” hemorrhagic African viruses that cause
Ebola and Marburg disease. Before the terrorist bombings, virologists
were blaming animals in the wild for these diseases; now it is clear the
more likely threat comes from crazy scientists and terrorists.

Ignored by the media is a recently updated report entitled
“Iraq and the West Nile Virus: A Possible Connection?” by the Centre for
Defense Information (October 28, 2002), raising the possibility the West
Nile virus was artificially introduced into the United States by Iraq in
1999 in order to test Iraq’s bioweapon capabilities and US defenses.

“A Centers for Disease Control source told CDI the CDC is
investigating the possibility that the appearance of West Nile was part
of a coordinated plan to introduce biological weapons into the United
States by Iraq. ‘We’ve been investigating that possibility pretty much
since nine-eleven,’ he said. The source refused to provide his name,
citing security concerns, as did other health communication experts
contacted through the CDC public inquiry hotline, and added that he
cannot speculate on any probabilities until further investigation is
complete. A CDC media spokesperson denied these statements in a later
interview. The CDC states on its Web site that although they do not know
the origin of the virus, the US strain is genetically closest to strains
found in the Middle East.” To this date, the CDC vehemently denies that
West Nile virus is bioterrorism.

No one yet knows how SARS started in China. Did the virus
escape from a Chinese lab? It’s a possibility, but it cannot easily
explain how SARS came to Hong Kong, where half the 600 infections in the
city derive from one apartment complex (the Amoy Gardens). While
avoiding the possibility of “super-spreader” bioterrorists, the media
was quickly labeling certain SARS victims as “super-spreaders.”

As in prior military experiments, all it might take for
terrorists to spread SARS is an aerosol can or a specially designed
suitcase, or a “gloved” box (the type used by anthrax spreaders) to
infect an apartment building like the Amoy Gardens or a floor of a
hotel, like the Metropole in Hong Kong, which also had a large number of
SARS cases. Why would anyone want to infect China and the Far East with
a highly contagious virus? Disrupting the economy of Asia would only be
one demonic reason.

Most people don’t give a damn about biological warfare. Even
people who suffer from emerging diseases often don’t have a clue about
research pointing to man-made diseases; and if you try and educate them
about biowarfare and unethical medical experimentation, most people
don’t want to know.

In the nuclear arsenal of the world’s major powers is enough
explosive power to completely destroy the planet. Yet strong nations are
still not content and want newer and better agents of mass destruction
and biowarfare. As time goes by, the “old stuff” gets sold off to poorer
countries, and all of it is subject to thievery by terrorists and
genocidal scientists.

Biotechnology is wedded to world power and military defense;
people who work in these fields are sworn to secrecy and whistle-blowers
can land in jail, or worse. Government health authorities all have the
same “official story” and their “expert” views are dutifully recounted
by adoring media-controlled journalists. Contrary views are not
considered. Researchers must rely on government or pharmaceutical
grants, and trouble-makers with “politically and scientifically
incorrect” views find themselves quickly out of a job and a career.

How many more bioterrorism wake up calls are required before
health officials stop looking in rain forests and animal populations for
the origin of these new epidemic diseases – and begin to look at the
world trade in deadly infectious agents and laboratory animals, and the
insanities of genetic research, as reasons for our new plagues?
Biowarfare agents are designed solely to maim or kill large numbers of
civilians. And any country that is willing to employ and deploy these
agents should be fully aware of the old adage: What goes around, comes
around.

So what does the future hold for us with all these coming
plagues? Is it too late to educate people and get governments to start
behaving responsibly by not supporting biowarfare insanity – and
recognising it when it appears?

The pessimist in me says “no.” The optimist says “maybe.” My
spirit says our Mission here on planet Earth is to try to learn to love
one another, and not to kill each other. Or is that just another silly
“conspiracy theory”?

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Dr. Cantwell is a researcher on AIDS, cancer, and biological warfare.
His book on man-made AIDS, Queer Blood: The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot,
is available through the New Dawn Book Service. Many of his writings can
be found on
google.com and the New Dawn web site. His published medical papers
are listed on PubMed. Dr. Cantwell wishes to express his appreciation to
David Jones, editor of New Dawn, for encouraging him to write this
controversial article.